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Argiope savignyi
There's an orb weaver spider with a white back in the middle of the white X in the web.
Spotted on Mar 12, 2012
Submitted on Mar 22, 2013
10 Comments
Ava, it's added to the animal architecture mission. I forgot about that one.
Please consider adding this spotting to the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082...
Good point Ashley:-)
Very cool! All spiders need to make an X like that, then I might stop running into their webs and accidentally destroying them!
Thanks RiekoS and Lauren. In this case X marks the spot not to go if you're a bird or bat:-)
Beautiful shot.
Very time consuming X that it made, but worth his time, since it shows so well. No bird or bat will fly into that!
Thanks for the help Burnuhwill and Sckel. After doing a little searching on the net, I came up with a good match for Argiope savignyi on these 2 sites.
http://test.whatsthatbug.com/2012/09/08/...
http://minibeastwildlife.blogspot.com/20...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argiope_arg...
definitely an Argiope. possibly A. catenulata